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Working Papers

2016

1. Can We Increase Retirement Saving?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
2. How Can We Realize the Value That Annuities Offer in a 401(k) World?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
3. How Do Non-Financial Factors Affect Retirement Decisions?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
4. How Job Options Narrow for Older Workers by Socioeconomic Status
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
5. How Work & Marriage Trends Affect Social Security’s Family Benefits
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)

2015

6. Are Americans of All Ages and Income Levels Shortsighted About Their Finances?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
7. Does the Social Security “Statement” Add Value?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
8. Dog Bites Man: Americans Are Shortsighted About Their Finances
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
9. How Does Occupational Access for Older Workers Differ by Education?
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)
10. What Do Subjective Assessments of Financial Well-Being Reflect?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (6)
11. Will Social Security Keep Fewer of Tomorrow’s Elderly Out of Poverty?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2014

12. The Government’s Redesigned Reverse Mortgage Program
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)
13. The U.K.’s Ambitious New Retirement Savings Initiative
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2013

14. An Assessment of the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
15. Social Security and Equities: Lessons from Railroad Retirement
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
16. Social Security and the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research

2012

17. Can the Actuarial Reduction for Social Security Early Retirement Still Be Right?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (5)
18. Should You Buy an Annuity from Social Security?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2010

19. Is the Reduction in Older Workers' Job Tenure a Cause for Concern?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
20. Overview of the CRR 2009 Retirement Survey
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
21. Workers' Response to the Market Crash: Save More, Work More?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)

2009

22. Can the Bottom Third Work Longer?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
23. Employers' (Lack of) Response to the Retirement Income Challenge
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
24. Recessions and Older Workers
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (12)
25. Risk Pooling and the Market Crash: Lessons From Canada's Pension Plan
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
26. Unusual Social Security Claiming Strategies: Costs and Distributional Effects
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
27. Why Are Older Workers At Greater Risk of Displacement?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2008

28. An "Elastic" Earliest Eligibility Age for Social Security
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
29. The Decline of Career Employment
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
30. When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2007

31. A Gradual Exit may Not Make for a Happier Retirement?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
32. The Labor Supply of Older Americans
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (13)
33. What Makes Retirees Happier: A Gradual or 'Cold Turkey' Retirement?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (8)
    Also in Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research (2007) View citations (16)
34. Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (16)

2006

35. Employer Attitudes towards Older Workers: Survey Results
    Work Opportunity Briefs, Center for Retirement Research View citations (14)
36. Has the Displacement of Older Workers Increased?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (8)
37. Population Aging And The Structure Of Wages
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (6)
38. Will We Have To Work Forever?
    Work Opportunity Briefs, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2005

39. 401(k) Plans and Women: A "Good News/Bad News" Story
    Just the Facts, Center for Retirement Research

Journal Articles

2013

1. Social Security claiming decision of married men and widow poverty
   Economics Letters, 2013, 119, (1), 20-23 View citations (9)

2012

2. How the Risk of Displacement for Older Workers Has Changed
   LABOUR, 2012, 26, (1), 90-107

2007

3. The labor supply of older American men
   Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 2007, 52 View citations (3)
   See also Book The labor supply of older American men, Monograph, 2007 (2007) View citations (4) (2007)

2004

4. Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 456. $45.00
   The Journal of Economic History, 2004, 64, (2), 625-626

1998

5. Leapfrog and catch-up
   Regional Review, 1998, (Q 1), 14-19

1997

6. How will we support ourselves when we grow old?
   Regional Review, 1997, (Fall), 21-26
7. Social Security reform: links to saving, investment and growth
   Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 1997, (jun) View citations (4)
8. Social Security: how social and secure should it be?
   Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 1997, (jun), 29-63 View citations (7)

1996

9. Across the dialectic
   Regional Review, 1996, (Sum), 20-25
10. Crosscurrents
    Regional Review, 1996, (Win), 18-24
11. Risk at the PBGC: public guarantee of private pension benefits
    Regional Review, 1996, (Spr), 19-24
12. Techno babel: the technology-driven economy
    Regional Review, 1996, (Fall), 18-24

1995

13. Endgames: planning for the end of one's career
    Regional Review, 1995, (Spr), 6-11
14. Just compensation: performance-based pay for non-supervisory employees
    Regional Review, 1995, (Win), 12-17
15. Passing the buck: the intergenerational transmission of wealth
    Regional Review, 1995, (Sum), 12-17

1994

16. A new concept of the corporation: dynamic enterprise
    Regional Review, 1994, (Win), 19-24
17. See Dick earn. Earn, Dick, earn
    Regional Review, 1994, (Sum), 13-19
18. What's so special about manufacturing?
    Regional Review, 1994, (Spr), 19-24
19. Who's going to pay for college?
    Regional Review, 1994, (Fall), 13-19

1993

20. Brunelleschi's bargain: intellectual property in digital space
    Regional Review, 1993, (Fall), 6-13
21. Crisis in pensions
    Regional Review, 1993, (Spr), 13-18
22. How much is that building in the window? The boom and bust in New England office building values
    Regional Review, 1993, (Jun), 6-12

1992

23. Explaining the bust
    Regional Review, 1992, (Win), 19-24
24. Public pension DOs and DON'Ts
    Regional Review, 1992, (Spr), 21-24 View citations (1)

1991

25. Getting the banks into balance: implications for borrowers
    Regional Review, 1991, (fall), 20-24
26. New firms on the block
    Regional Review, 1991, (Spr), 6-12 View citations (1)
27. The credit crunch
    Regional Review, 1991, (Win), 14-20
28. Workers at the gate
    Regional Review, 1991, (Sum), 20-24

1990

29. The U.S. professional sector: 1950 to 1988
    New England Economic Review, 1990, (Jan), 37-55

1989

30. Equity in the distribution of Massachusetts tax burdens
    New England Economic Indicators, 1989, (Q III), iv-xi

1987

31. Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain. By Leslie Hannah. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xi + 201 pp. Charts, tables, notes, note on sources, and index. $39.50.)
    Business History Review, 1987, 61, (2), 351-353

1985

32. The Evolution of Management Education: J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1908–1983. By Michael W. Sedlak and Harold F. Williamson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. x, 166. $14.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1985, 45, (1), 171-172
33. Worker Benefits: Industrial Welfare in America 1900–1935. An Annotated Bibliography. By Martha Jane Soltow and Susan Gravelle. (Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1983. iv + 230 pp. $16.50.)
    Business History Review, 1985, 59, (4), 689-690

Books

2014

1. Privatizing Railroad Retirement
   Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

2007

2. The labor supply of older American men
   Monograph, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article The labor supply of older American men, Conference Series ; [Proceedings], Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2007) View citations (3) (2007)

2006

3. Social Security and the Stock Market: How the Pursuit of Market Magic Shapes the System
   Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research View citations (2)